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Dean Baker

Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C.

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AFFIRMATIVE

Should We Be Scared by These Jobless Numbers? You Bet

These numbers aren't a surprise. But are we ensuring that workers can come out of this whole, or at least on the edge of whole? No.

Dean Baker

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It’s Complicated

Dems’ Job Guarantee Isn’t Nearly as Easy as It Sounds

Ten million or 20 million people with well-paying jobs with health insurance? Sure, great. But could the government manage it? And what of the private sector?

Dean Baker

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A Bleak Jobs Outlook

Underlying July’s dismal employment report showing almost no job creation is a message for the second half of the year: Don’t expect things to change. Economist Dean Baker on where the jobs are—and are not.

Dean Baker

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